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Returns to Active Management

The Case of Hedge Funds


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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Analytical
  • Scientific
  • Background

Recommendation

Hedge funds have made enormous fortunes for their managers, if not always for their investors. Perhaps due to their relative lack of transparency, these funds benefit from a sort of exceptional bias, where the outsize returns of a few get a lot of attention, while the general mediocrity of the rest receives less notice. Economists Maziar Kazemi and Ergys Islamaj – with the use of some fancy mathematics to help pull back the veil – explain how trading activity and risk affect hedge fund managers’ returns. getAbstract recommends their insights to analysts, investors and fund managers who might need to reconsider their strategies.

Take-Aways

  • Assuming efficient markets and equally capable asset managers, the returns of more active managers will be lower than those of less active managers, as the added transaction costs of more frequent trading should outweigh any improved performance.
  • Research shows that moderately active hedge fund managers deliver the highest returns.
  • But when their returns undergo risk adjustment, it turns out that moderately active managers offer the poorest returns and the most volatility.

About the Authors

Maziar Kazemi is a senior research assistant with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Ergys Islamaj is an assistant professor of economics at Vassar College.


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